Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Miser in the Bush, sentence 66
‘You, Ashputtel!’ said she; ‘you who have nothing to wear, no clothes at all, and who cannot even dance--you want to go to the ball?
Who acts: You · What happens: say, have, wear, not dance, want, go · To what, where: nothing, ball · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Miser in the Bush. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Ashputtel | punct |
| 4 | Ashputtel | Ashputtel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 You | appos |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 Ashputtel | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 Ashputtel | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 have | punct |
| 10 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 have | punct |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 have | nsubj |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 have | nsubj |
| 13 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | ccomp |
| 14 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 13 have | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 wear | mark |
| 16 | wear | wear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 nothing | acl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 clothes | punct |
| 18 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 19 clothes | det |
| 19 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 14 nothing | conj |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 all | case |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 clothes | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 dance | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 dance | cc |
| 24 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 dance | nsubj |
| 25 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 dance | aux |
| 26 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 dance | advmod |
| 27 | even | even | ADV | _ | 28 dance | advmod |
| 28 | dance | dance | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 have | conj |
| 29 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 31 want | punct |
| 30 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 31 want | nsubj |
| 31 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 have | conj |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 go | mark |
| 33 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 want | xcomp |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 ball | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 ball | det |
| 36 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 go | obl |
| 37 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | You | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | have | present | you | nothing | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient | ||||
| 3 | wear | to-infinitive | you not said here | nothing not said here | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | not dance | can | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | want | present | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | the ball | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to ball=Initial_Location |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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